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Related: About this forumGot a really painful flu shot...what happened????
It was administered by the pharmacist at my local Stop and Shop. I never recalled flu shots hurting before...IIRC they are a piece of cake...but this hurt and took forever and my arm was sore for 2 days after!
Is there something different about this year's flu shot or is it just that I got a bad practitioner?
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)massive headache and just felt 'bad' for about 24 hours.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)and said it hurt more - and longer - than any she has had to date.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)because it's a much bigger muscle with fewer nerves than the deltoid, the one at your shoulder.
Chances are the practitioner was OK, s/he just hit one of the nerves in there.
Unfortunately, the pharmies are taught only to do it in the deltoid. I always have to push my very loose jeans down one inch, point to it, and say "there."
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)I know how to lower my jeans an inch over the target area and say "there."
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)dtotire
(1,889 posts)Mine was painless, except a slight prick
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)chillfactor
(7,576 posts)neither one hurt nor did I have any side effects
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)my PCP told me that the medical science isn't settled on that yet...I tend to get a zoster outbreak on my side every so often and I'm wondering if that is any indication that I won't get hit with shingles...
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I've had flu enough times in the past that I figure I'm basically immune to it. Last time I got flu was maybe 1975, and I've lived through the only major flu epidemics of the last 50 plus years.
But I am considering very seriously the shingles shot. I know just enough people who've gotten shingles, including my older brother when he was about 50 and my younger son at age 20, that I think it's something I'd prefer to avoid. And isn't a zoster outbreak essentially shingles?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Mine happens to be on my left side but it has occurred on my right side also (amazing symmetry). It usually happens at the change of the season but I am convinced stress makes it worse. It's not a problem with me and goes away completely with no sequelae...
murielm99
(30,741 posts)Usually, I have no reaction.
This was not a big deal, really.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Also, I was coming off a string of minor, but unpleasant, health issues...all kinds of infections, at the same time having to prepare for a regularly schedule colonoscopy screening, and a diagnosis of spinal arthritis. Juggling all of this stuff at once was pretty draining on me, an old person in my 70s, so it got to be, yes, a bigger deal than I expected...
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Happened to me
It was the same guy that always gave me my flu shot at Walgreens,this time it hurt, it bled and made me sick for 2 days.
That only happened the very first time i got a flu shot years ago.
He said this is a different vaccine. The last few years have been a variation of the same vaccine because the flu strain was similar, this one is not. After a couple days I was fine, but had headache, temp, stomach upset, very tired. Get it, deal with it. Its a more dangerous flu.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)hubby is going tomorrow to his doc's office for his shot. I told him what happened to me so as to warn him, just in case he has a bad reaction. Hopefully, the nurse who will give it to him will be a bit better at administering it than my pharmacist was...
TDale313
(7,820 posts)I only started getting the flu shot regularly a few years ago, but yeah, I was more sore than the last couple.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)where a lot of people got very sore arms and the vaccine contained a B strain that hadn't be in circulation before.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)that happened to me once with a flu shot. But it's unusual.